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Spring and the forthcoming support for scripting languages

 
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In Appendix D of "Pro Spring", Rob and Jan showcase the forthcoming support for scripting languages (Groovy and BeanShell at first). Could you guys elaborate on what do you see as the main use cases for these scripting languages? How will people use them? How are you using them if you are/will be using them?
 
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Templating in scripting languages is probably simpler. For eg in one of the posts here, it was mentioned that velocity was used for automating email generation through a template. This can be easily done using a scripting language. The only one I know of is python. I could get something simple working quickly in like 4/5 lines of code. But we need more use cases to justify the integration of scripting languages into development. But yeah, things like jython seamlessly integrate with java so it s'd'nt be too much of a problem.
 
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Agreed. Scripting languages are good for templating and text-processing in general, but I'm specifically interested in what the Spring developers have in mind when adding support for scripting languages.
 
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